Examination Syllabus - Political Science
Section-A
1. Political Science : Nature & scope of the discipline, relationship with allied disciplines like History, Economics, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology.
2. Meaning of Politics : Approaches to the study of Politics.
3. Key Concepts : State, Soceity, Sovereignty, Power, Citizenship, Nation, Global order and Imperialism.
4. Political Ideas : Rights, Liberty, Equality, Justice, Rule of Law. Civil Soceity Swaraj, Revolution, Democratic Participation.
5. Democracy : Meaning and Theories of Democracy, Electoral system, Forms of Representation & Participation, Political accountability.
6. Political Ideologies : Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Marxism, Socialism, Fascism, Gandhism.
7. Party System and Political Process : Therories of Party System, National and regional parties, Political Parties in the Third World. Patterns of coalition politics, interest and pressure groups.
8. Forms of Government : Parliamentary and Presidential. Federal & unitary Modes of decentralisation.
9. Bureaucracy Concept : Theories, Weber and critiques of Bureaucracy.
10. Theories of Development : Meaning and various approaches. Concept and Theories of underdevelopment Debates in the Third World.
11. Social Movements : Meaning, Theories & Forms, Role of Environmental Feminist Peasant & workers movements, Role of Non Government organisation.
12. Nationalism and Internationalism
13. Major theories of International relations : Realist Marxist, Systems & Decision making & Game theory.
14. State & the Global order : Neo-Liberalism, globalisation, structural adjustment, regional economic integration, Nature and Impact of globalisation.
Section-B (Indian Government and politics)
1. Approaches to the study of Governments : Comparative historical, legal institutional, political economy and political sociology, approaches.
2. Classification of Political systems : Democratic and Authoritarian, characteristics of Political systems in the third world.
3. Typologies of constitutions : Basic features of these constitutions & governments, including U.K., USA. France, Germany, China, and South Africa.
4. Constitutional development : in India during British Rule-A historical perspective.
5. Constituent Assembly : philosophical and socio-economic dimensions. Salient features of the Indian Constitution.
6. Nature of Indian federalism : Centre-state relations, legislative, administrative, financial and political; politics of regional move and National Integration.
7. Fundamental Rights : Constitutional provisions and political dynamics. Judicial Interpretations and socio political realities; Fundamental Duties.
8. The Union Executive : President, Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, Constitutional provisions & framework and political trends.
9. Parliament : Powers and functions of the Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha; Parliamentary Committees; Functioning of the Parliamentary system in India.
10. The Judiciary : The Supreme Court , Judicial Review Judicial Activism, Public Intrest Litigation; Judicial Reforms.
11. The State Executive : Governor, Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers; Constitutional Provisions and Political trends.
12. Indian Party System : Evolution and Contemporay trends; coalition government at the Centre and States, pressure groups in Indian politics.
13. The interaction of Government & Scientific & Technology business : Previous and now their inter relationship and changing roles in Society, Elites, Role of Pressure groups class and voluntary associations in society.
14. Local Government & Politics : Panchayti Raj and Municipal Government, structure power & functions. Political realities, significance of 73rd and 74th Amendements, role of women in Panchayats.
15. Bureaucracy and Development : Post-colonial India; its changing role in the context of liberatis after, bureauratic Accountability.
16. Challenges to Indian Democracy :
1. Communalism Regionalism violence, criminalisation and corruption.
2. Regional disparities, environmental degradation, illiteracy, Mass Poverty, Population, growth, caste oppressions and socio economic inequalities among backward classes.
Main Examination Syllabus - Political Science and International Relations
Paper-I
Section-A (Political Theory and Indian Politics)
* Approaches to the study of political theory: historical, normative and empirical.
* Theories of state: Social contract, Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, communitarian, post-colonial.
* State Sovereignty: Marxist and pluralistic theories; globalisation and the State.
* Democracy and Human Rights: Democratic theory-classical and contemporary. Theories of Human Rights; Theories of Justice, Equality and Revolution, political obligation; New Social Movements.
* Theories of Political Culture; Culture and politics in Third World countries.
* Theories of Political Economy-Classical and contemporary.
* Political Ideologies: Nature of Ideology; Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Anarchism.
* Theories of Power and Hegemony: Pareto, Mosca, Mitchels, C. Wright Mills, Weber, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt.
* Indian Political Thought: Manu, Kautilya M.N. Roy Gandhi Ambedkar and E V Ramswami Naicker.
* Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, J S Mill, Hegel and Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemberg and Mao Zedong.
Section-B (Indian Government and Politics)
* Indian Nationalism: Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Savarkar, Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narain, Nehru, Subhas Bose, Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia.
* Nature and struggle of Indian freedom struggle : From constitutionalism to Mass Satyagraha, Revolutionary movements Non Co-operation, Civil disobedience and Quit India, Indian Naval uprising, Indian National Army; role of women in freedom struggle.
* Socio- economic dimensions of the nationalist movement: The communal question and the demand for partition; backward caste movements, Trade union and Peasant movements, Civil rights movement.
* Landmarks in Constitutional Development during British Rule: Morley-Minto Reforms; Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; Simon Commission; Government of India Act, 1935; Cripps Mission : Indian Independence Act, 1947.
* Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles; federalism, parliamentary system; amending procedures; judicial review.
* The Executive System in theory and practice: President, Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers; Governor, Chief Minister and the State Council of Ministers. The Bureaucracy.
* Role and function of the Parliament and Parlimentary Committee-Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; changing socio economic profile.
* The Supreme Court and the High Courts; Judicial Activism; PIL.
* Statutory institutions/commis sions-UPSC, Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Backward Classes Commission, National Commission for women; National Human Rights Commission; Minorities Commission.
* Party system : ideology and social base of parties; fragmentation and regionalisation. Pressure groups; patterns of coalition politics; trends in electoral behaviour.
* Class, caste, ethnicity and gender in Indian politics; politics of regionalism, communalism, backward class and Dalit movements, Tribal people movements, struggle for gender justice.
* Planning and Economic Development : Role of the Planning Commission; Planning in the era of liberalisation; political dimensions of economic reforms.
* Grassroots democracy : Panchayati Raj and municipal government; significance of 73rd and 74th Amendements. Grass root movement and women's empowerment.
Paper - II (Comparative Politics and International Relations)
Section-A (Comparative Analysis and International Politics)
* Approaches to the study of comparative politics : traditional approaches; political economy, political sociology or political system approaches; Nature of political process in the Third World.
* The Modern State : Evolution, the contemporary trends in the advanced industrial countries and the third world.
* Development : Strategies and contemporary discourse.
* Concepts of International politics : Power, national interest, balance of power, national security, collective security and peace.
* Theories of International politics Marxist, Realist, Systems, Decision-making and Game Theory.
* Determinants of foreign policy : Domestic compulsions, geopolitics, geoeconomics and global order.
* Origin and contemporary relevance of the Cold War, nature of the post-cold war global order.
* Major issues of world politics : Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War, Oil Crisis, Afghan Civil War, Gulf War, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslav Crisis.
* Non-alignment : Concept and movement; Third World Movements for global justice, Non-alignment in the post cold war era.
* The evolution of the international economic system-from Bretton woods to WTO, the North-South dimension.
* International organisations UN and its specialized agencies : International Court of Justice; ILO, UNICEF, WHO UNESCO.
* Regional, organizations such as the ASEAN, APEC, EU, SAARC, NAFTA
* Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, Human Rights, Ecology, Gender Justice, Global commons, Communication.
Section-B (India and the World)
* Indian Foreign Policy : Historical origins, determinants; the institutions of policy-making; continuity and change.
* India and the Non-Alignment Movement : Evolution and contemporary relevance. Socio- political basis of non-alignment-domestic and global.
* Major issues in Indian foreign policy : Sino-Indian Border War (1962); Indo-Pakistan War (1971) and the liberation of Bangladesh; IPKF in Sri Lanka; India as military nuclear power (1998).
* Conflict and co-operation in South Asia : India's relations with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal. Regional co-operation and SAARC. Kashmir question in India's foreign policy.
* India's relation with Africa and Latin America.
* India and South East Asia; ASEAN.
* India and the major powers : USA, EU, China, Japan and Russia.
* India and the UN System : India's role in UN Peace Keeping and global disarmament.
* India and the emerging international economic order; multilateral agencies-WTO, IMF, IBRD, ADB.
* India and the question of nuclear weapons : NPT and CTBT.
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